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security engineering @brave / helped build Let's Encrypt, Privacy Badger, and HTTPS Everywhere @eff / physics alum @mit / rabbit enthusiast
could not for the life of me figure out how to buy a bus ticket in Milan. it was literally easier to get a shell 😆
long thread about a phishing attack that has proper headers from google’s domain but for true DKIM stans, the interesting part starts here
Here's how it works: First, they register a domain and create a Google account for 'me@domain'. The domain isn't that important but it helps if looks like some kind of infra. The choice of 'me' for the username is clever, as you'll see in a minute.
📣🚨 BAT SIGNAL: A law in France that would mandate a backdoor in end to end encrypted communications is set for a vote within the next day, after some start-stop skirmishes. The French Narcotraffic law would require encrypted communications providers—like Signal—create a…
target.com prices delivery items based on your local store setting, not your delivery address, so if you live in SF just set your local store to Missouri or something lol
I benchmarked over 100 HTML tags so you don't have to and here are the visualized results. Not all HTML tags are created equal!
A little over 10 years ago I and @dugdep stood up the first Yahoo! Red Team when I joined the Paranoids under @alexstamos. Despite low morale through economic downturns, a failing business, terrible headlines, waves of layoffs and a legacy tech stack the Paranoids punched well…
NEW: Yahoo laid off around 25% of its cybersecurity team, known internally and in the industry as "The Paranoids," in the last year. Company let go ~40 people out of ~200, according to multiple current and former Yahoo employees. techcrunch.com/2024/12/12/yah…
70 mb/24 hours, call it hurricane comcast
A massive "bomb cyclone" is set to explode off the U.S. West Coast with hurricane force winds, flooding rains, and enormous mountain snow from Category 5 atmospheric river. Central pressure will fall almost 70 mb / 24 hours reaching 942 mb -- similar to Category 4 hurricane.
just drove by the same people we drove by 4 hours ago. proof the universe is running out of memory.